Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : Rev. Calvin Durfee
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368122398
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : Microfilming Corporation of America
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author :
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Agriculture
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1859
Category : New York (State)
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Author : Atlanta University. Library
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1974
Category : African Americans
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Author : Lawrence Woods
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728344980
Early in his life, Hardin knew he was born a free person of color, and by the time he was twenty, he knew he had a more comprehensive education than most of the white men of his age. In the West, he actually looked French or Spanish, but he still was proud that he was of one-eighth African descent. In 1850 Hardin was twenty, when the Fugitive Slave Law created a terrible threat to a free person of color, as slave-catchers then roamed the northern states, seeking people they could seize, process through the poor enforcement of the law, and resell southward. He soon moved to Canada, as a safer place to live, but “didn’t like” that country, and returned to Wisconsin (a part of the old Northwest Territory, where slavery was illegal). Then in 1857, the Supreme Court said that people of African descent were “inferior,” whether slave or free. In Colorado in 1863, Hardin was a barber, that favorite occupation of African American men, who associated with the upper classes of white men, and if personable—as Hardin was—made valuable friends. Soon he was speaking to “overflow” crowds, even though he was telling the story of a Haitian slave’s successful revolt against the French. He even got a job with the Denver mint. But although he had never been a slave, the ghost of slavery still lurked behind him, and an editor, writing about the mint job, said that Hardin had an ”ugly black mug.”
Author : George Alfred Townsend
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Page : 508 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Washington (D.C.)
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Author : Avero Publications Limited
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780907977575
Author : New York State Library
Publisher :
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Libraries
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Author : James Malcolm
Publisher :
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1918
Category : New York (State)
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